Paloma Faith has announced a series of UK tour dates for 2013, and a new single ’30 Minute Love Affair’ to be released on August 12. The song is taken from Paloma’s incredible second album Fall To Grace which reached number 2 in the UK albums chart when it was released in May. The album was beaten to the number 1 spot by Gary Barlow’s Diamond Jubilee record, by only 5000 copies!

’30 Minute Love Affair’ is a sparkling, synth-pop love song in which Paloma recounts the true experience of a fleeting meeting with a busker in London’s Leicester Square when she was just fourteen: “I asked him if he’d be there the next day and he said he would. When I went back he was gone, and I’ve never forgotten it.”

Paloma Faith reveals some behind the scenes footage from her new single '30 Minute Love Affair'

The 2013 dates will be the first full tour of Fall To Grace, however Paloma is appearing at a series of live events over the summer, including two headline dates at London’s Somerset House on 17th and 18th July.

Tickets for the 2013 tour are on sale now.

• 21st Jan - Dublin - Vicar St
• 23rd Jan – Manchester - Manchester O2 Apollo
• 24th Jan – Manchester - Manchester O2 Apollo
• 25th Jan – Nottingham - Royal Concert Hall
• 27th Jan – Leeds - O2 Academy
• 28th Jan - Glasgow - O2 Academy
• 29th Jan – Edinburgh - Usher Hall
• 31st Jan – Newcastle - O2 Academy
• 1st Feb – York - Barbican
• 2nd Feb – Wolverhampton - Wolves Civic Hall
• 4th Feb – Brighton - Brighton Centre
• 5th Feb – Portsmouth - Portsmouth Guildhall
• 7th Feb – London - Hammersmith Apollo
• 9th Feb – Cardiff - Cardiff Arena
• 11th Feb- Sheffield -Sheffield Academy
• 12th Feb- Leicester - De Montford Hall
• 13th Feb- Blackpool - Blackpool Opera House
• 15th Feb -Plymouth - Plymouth Pavillions
• 16th Feb - Reading - Reading Hexagon
• 17th Feb - Cambridge - Cambridge Corn Exchange